"Center loosens, forms again elsewhere." — Roger Zelazny
See also an image in memory of the Coppertone artist
from a post of May 18, 2006 —
“My God, it’s
full of stars!”
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Relish
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Monday, June 10, 2019
Revelations of a Transcendental Subject
(Namely, Plato's ghost)
Background: "Transcendental subject" is Kant's term for, more or less, the self.
"To get inside the systems of this work,
whether LeWitt's or Judd's or Morris's,
is precisely to enter
a world without a center,
a world of substitutions and transpositions
nowhere legitimated by the revelations
of a transcendental subject. This is the strength
of this work, its seriousness, and its claim to modernity."
More from Krauss —
A book by an author with somewhat wider "cultural experience" —
See also "Plato's Diamond" in this journal.
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Saturday, June 8, 2019
Saturday, July 7, 2018
Easter Eggs for Rosalind
Three hidden keys open three secret gates
Wherein the errant will be tested for worthy traits
And those with the skill to survive these straits
Will reach The End where the prize awaits
— Ready Player One , by Ernest Cline
Related text —
Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram
aedificabo ecclesiam meam et tibi
dabo claves regni caelorum
Related imagery —
From Steven Spielberg's film "Ready Player One" (2018) —
From this journal on June 17, 2003 —
From The New York Times on Easter night, 2007 —
See as well Rosalind Krauss on LeWitt:
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Saturday, October 14, 2017
Center
"To get inside the systems of this work,
whether LeWitt's or Judd's or Morris's,
is precisely to enter
a world without a center,
a world of substitutions and transpositions
nowhere legitimated by the revelations
of a transcendental subject. This is the strength
of this work, its seriousness, and its claim to modernity."
"The center of
the quaternion group,
Q8 = {1, −1, i, −i, j, −j, k, −k} ,
is {1, −1}."
Illustration from a post of Feb. 3, 2011 —
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In Principio:
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